Acronyms and Terminology Etc.

AppleShare - Apple Computers File and Print Sharing Services

AppleTalk - 238 Kilobits per second baseband network using CSMA/CD

ANSI - American National Standards Institute

API - Application Program Interface

Archie - Internet search tool

ATM - Asyncronous Transfer Mode

AUI - Attachment Unit Interface - connector originally used with thick Ethernet

BNC - connector used with thin/RG58 Ethernet and coaxial cable

BRI - Basic Rate Interface, referring to ISDN Line

CAP - Competitive Access Provider - i.e. TCG, ICG, Brooks Fibre, MFS etc.

CGI - Common Gateway Interface, referring to Web server software

CHAP - Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol - type of authentication used with ISDN, also see "PAP"

CIR - Committed Information Rate

CLEC - Competitive Local Exchange Carrier - i.e. TCG, ICG, Brooks Fibre, MFS etc.

CO - Central Office, refering to local carrier switch

CODEC - coder-decoder, a device that converts analog voice into digital and vice versa

CPE - Customer Premise Equipment

CPU - Central Processing Unit

CRC - Cyclical Redundancy Check

CSLIP - Compressed Serial Line Interface Protocol

CSU - Channel Service Unit

DNS - Domain Name Service

DSL - Digital Subscriber Line

DSU - Data Service Unit

DTE - Data Terminal Equipment

ECC - Error Checking Cache - used in all high end servers

EIDE - Enhanced Integrated Drive Electronics

EISA - Enhanced Industry Standard Architecture

E-MAIL - Electronic Mail

ESDI - Enhanced Small Device Interface

FAQs - Frequently Asked Questions

FDDI - Fiber-Optic Data Distribution Interface

Finger - application which allows user to see who is logged on to a network

FTP - File Transfer Protocol

GIF - Graphics Interchange Format

Gopher - Internet application used for ???

HDLC - High-Level Data Link Control

HSSI - High Speed Serial Interface

HTML - Hypertext Markup Language

HTTP - Hyper Text Transfer Protocol

IDE - Integrated Drive Electronics

IMAP - Interactive Mail Access Protocol (mail protocol not supported by Internex currently)

ICMP - Internet Control Message Protocol

IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

IPX - Internetork Packet eXchange used with Novell

IRC - Internet Relay Chat

ISA - Industry Standard Architecture - refers to original PC bus

ISDN - Integrated Services Digital Network

ISC - Internet Software Consortium

IXC - Inter Exchange Carrier - i.e. MCI, Sprint etc.

JPEG - Joint Photographic Experts Group

Kbps - kilobits per second

KBps - kilobytes per second

LAN - Local Area Network

LATA - Local Access and Transport Area -

LEC - Local Exchange Carrier - i.e. Pac Bell

LocalTalk - Name of Cable used for AppleTalk networks

MAU - Media Access Unit

Mbone - Multicast Backbone on the Internet

MIME - Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions

MPP - Multi Point Protocol

Multicast - an address for a selection of nodes in a network

MUX - Multiplexor - Equipment used by carrier, remotely configurable

NBP - Name Binding Protocol - AppleTalk protocol for translating device names to addresses

NDIS - Network Driver Interface Specification -

Net Beui - Netbios Extended User Interface

Netbios - Network Basic Input Output System

Netware - Novell operating system using IPX and SPXprotocols

NFS - Network File System

NIC - Network Interface Controller, Network Information Center

NIS - Network Information Service, for SunOS 4.x

NIS+ - Network Information Service, for SunOS 5.x

NOC - Network Operations Center

OSI - Open Sytems Interconnection

PAP - Password Authentication Protocol - used in ISDN - also see CHAP

PCI - P??? Control Interface - bus which works on PC's, Mac's, Sun's or any other computer platform

PING - Packet Internet Grouper

POP - Post Office Protocol or Point of Presence

PPP - Point to Point Protocol

PRI - Primary Rate Interface

PPTP - Point To Point Tunneling Protocol

PVC - Permanent Virtual Circuit

NNTP - Network News Transfer Protocol

NTP - Network Time Protocol (also see XNTP)

Rlogin - similar to telnet allowing user to log into a remote work station

SCSI - Small Computer System Interface

Signature file - ASCII text file maintained within email programs or in the /home/user/.signature file in UNIX

SLIP - Serial Line Interface Protocol

SMTP - Simple Mail Transport Protocol

SNMP - Simple Network Management Protocol

SNTP - Simple Network Time Protocol

Spam - refers to unsolicited mass email adds

SPID - Service Profile Identifier - used with ISDN

SPX - Sequential Packet eXchange - Novell's implementation of SPP (Sequential Packet Protocol)

TCP/IP - Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol

TEI - Terminal Endpoint Identifier - With ISDN reffers to SPID number

Telnet - application which allows user to login to remote device

TID - Terminal Identifier

UDP - User Datagram Protocol

URL - Uniform Resource Locator

USB - Universal Serial Bus

Usenet - another name for Internet news groups

UTP - Unshielded Twisted Pair

Veronica - Internet search tool

VPN - Virtual Private Network

WAIS - Wide Area Information Servers

WAN - Wide Area Network

Web Browser - Internet application used to view websites

Whois - Internet application used for accessing Domain name information from the Internic

WWW - World Wide Web

XNTP - eXtended Network Time Protocol


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